scholarly journals Heat Stress at Early Reproductive Stage Differentially Alters Several Physiological and Biochemical Traits of Three Tomato Cultivars

Horticulturae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
Md. Sabibul Haque ◽  
Mst. Tanziatul Husna ◽  
Md. Nesar Uddin ◽  
Md. Alamgir Hossain ◽  
Abul Khayer Mohammad Golam Sarwar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Ascorbate Peroxidase ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Photochemical Efficiency ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
Carotenoid Content ◽  
Biochemical Traits ◽  
Total Carotenoids ◽  
Tomato Cultivars ◽  
Physiological And Biochemical

Global warming is predicted to be increased in the upcoming years, resulting in frequent heatwaves or hot days worldwide, which can seriously affect crop growth and productivity. The responses of heat stress to several photophysiological and biochemical traits in three tomato cultivars were investigated in a pot experiment, and the heat tolerance capability of these cultivars was evaluated based on the investigated traits. The experiment was followed by a factorial completely randomized design, and the factors were (i) tomato cultivars (BARI Hybrid Tomato-5, BARI Tomato-14, and BARI Tomato-15) and (ii) heat stress (control and heat). The plants of three tomato cultivars were exposed to short-term heat stress (four days at 38/25 °C day/night temperature) at the flowering stage. The measured traits such as dry mass, leaf greenness (SPAD), maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), photosynthetic rate (A), stomatal conductance (gs), transpiration rate (E), leaf chlorophyll, and carotenoid content were significantly declined, while the catalase and ascorbate peroxidase activities were increased by heat stress in all three tomato cultivars except BARI Tomato-15, which showed unaltered gs, E, and carotenoids. The percent reduction (over control) in SPAD, Fv/Fm, A, total chlorophyll, and total carotenoids was significantly lower (11, 06, 25, 34, and 19%, respectively), whereas the percent increase in catalase and ascorbate peroxidase activities was substantially higher (70 and 72%, respectively) in BARI Tomato-15 than in other cultivars. Based on the measured physiological and biochemical traits, the cultivar BARI Tomato-15 showed better heat tolerance than the other cultivars.

scholarly journals Effect of Heat Treatment on Physiological and Recovery Growth Status of Two Tomato Cultivars With Different Heat Susceptibility

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherzod Nigmatullayevich Rajametov ◽  
Eun Young Yang ◽  
Hyo Bong Jeong ◽  
Myeong Cheoul Cho ◽  
Soo-Young Chae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Stress Tolerance ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Fruit Set ◽  
Fruit Size ◽  
Seedling Stage ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Tomato Cultivars ◽  
Heat Tolerant

High temperature seriously effects on plant vegetative and reproductive development and reduces productivity of plants, while to increase crop yield is the main target in most crop heat stress tolerance improvement breeding programs, not just survival, under high temperature. Our aim was to compare temperature stress tolerance in two commercial tomato cultivars “Dafnis” (big fruit size) and “Minichal” (cherry fruit size) to develop early screening methods and find out survival rate and physiological responses of tomato cultivars on high temperature (40°C and within 70% RH, day/night) in 4-5 true leaf seedling stage- (4LS) and identifies the linkage of heat tolerance with fruit set and leaf heat damage rates (LHD) in seedling stage with subsequent vegetative traits at recovery. Results showed that heat stress significantly affected on physiological-chemical and vegetative parameters of seedlings regardless of tomato cultivars. Survival and the threshold level of high temperature tolerance in the seedlings of cv. “Dafnis” and “Minichal” were identified on days 7 and 9, respectively. Our findings revealed that photosynthesis (PN, Gs, Ci, Tr) parameters were increased and CHL content persisted steady value in cv. “Minichal” during heat stress period, however EC and RPL rates were lower than cv. “Dafnis”. Heat stress reduced the SFW in both cultivars in seedling stage, but PH and RFW were significantly decreased in the heat tolerant cv. “Minichal”, whereas this parameters were not significantly ranged in the heat susceptible cv. “Dafnis”. Additionally, there no found linkage between vegetative parameters with decreasing of PN and CHL rates during HT of seedlings. In plants of cv. “Minichal” with LHD-25, 50 and 75% were no found significant differences in PH, whereas in cv. “Dafnis” significant differences were determined in plants with LHD-75%, and the significant differences in rates of SFW and RFW were observed in plants of cv. “Dafnis” having LHD-75% for 28 days of recovery at NT condition. Taken together, we concluded that heat stress affected on physiological parameters regardless of tolerance level, and to identify heat tolerant genotype in tomato breeding program, screening and selection genotypes have to be evaluated at the vegetative and reproductive stages with consideration fruit size types. Since we could not find linkage between heat tolerances in seedling stage with fruit set at the reproductive stage and fruit set cannot be used as a general predictor of heat tolerance.

scholarly journals Effect of Heat Stress on Inter-relationship of Physiological and Biochemical Traits with Grain Yield in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Amrita Kumari ◽  
R. D. Ranjan ◽  
Chandan Roy ◽  
Awadesh Kumar Pal ◽  
S. Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Grain Yield ◽  
Flag Leaf ◽  
Grain Filling ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Seedling Stage ◽  
Biochemical Traits ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Physiological And Biochemical

Heat stress, particularly the stress appears at the time of flowering to grain filling stages causing severe yield loss in wheat. Heat tolerance is complex phenomena that include adjustment in morphological, physiological and biochemical traits of the crop. Present investigation was carried out to understand the effect of terminal heat stress on different traits of wheat. The experiment was conducted in three dates of sowing as timely sown, late sown and very late sown to expose the crop to heat stress at later stages of the crop growth. Significant genetic variations for all the traits evaluated under three conditions indicated the presence of variability for the traits. Trait association analysis revealed that flag leaf chlorophyll content and MSI at seedling stage; MDA at reproductive stage had direct relationship with grain yield. While under very late sown condition MDA and RWC at seedling stages were found to be highly correlated with grain yield. It indicates that MDA, RWC at seedling stage and days to booting, days to milking plays important role in very late sown condition that can be used as selection criteria in breeding programme.

scholarly journals Characterization and Functional Analysis of FaHsfC1b from Festuca arundinacea Conferring Heat Tolerance in Arabidopsis

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Zhuang ◽  
Wei Cao ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Jingjin Yu ◽  
Zhimin Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Transgenic Plants ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Festuca Arundinacea ◽  
Photochemical Efficiency ◽  
Grass Species ◽  
Pcr Analysis ◽  
Plant Tolerance ◽  
Qrt Pcr ◽  
Class C

Heat transcription factors (Hsfs) belong to a large gene family classified into A, B, and C groups, with classes A and B Hsfs being well-characterized and known for their roles in plant tolerance to abiotic stresses. The functions and roles of Class C Hsfs are not well-documented. The objectives of this study were to characterize a class C Hsf gene (FaHsfC1b) cloned from tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea), a perennial grass species, and to determine the physiological functions of FaHsfC1b in regulating heat tolerance by overexpressing FaHsfC1b in Arabidopsis thaliana. Full length cDNA of FaHsfC1b was cloned and the sequence alignment showed that it had high similarity to OsHsfC1b with typical DNA binding domain, hydrophobic oligomerization domain, and a nucleus localization signal. Transient expression with FaHsfC1b-eGFP in protoplasts of Arabidopsis leaves indicated its nucleus localization. qRT-PCR analysis showed that FaHsfC1b responded to heat, osmotic, salt, and cold stress in leaves and roots during 48-h treatment. Physiological analysis showed that FaHsfC1b overexpression enhanced plant survival rate, chlorophyll content, and photochemical efficiency, while it resulted in decreases in electrolyte leakage, H2O2 and O2− content under heat stress. qRT-PCR showed that endogenous HsfC1 was induced in transgenic plants and the expression levels of heat protection protein genes, including several HSPs, AtGalSyn1, AtRof1, and AtHSA32, as well as ABA-synthesizing gene (NCED3) were significantly upregulated in transgenic plants overexpressing FaHsfC1b under heat stress. Our results first demonstrate that HsfC1b plays positive roles in plant tolerance to heat stress in association with the induction and upregulation of heat-protective genes. HsfC1b may be used as a candidate gene for genetic modification of cool-season plant species for improving heat tolerance.

Use of morpho-physiological and biochemical traits to identify sources of drought and heat tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shayla Bindra ◽  
Inderjit Singh ◽  
Satinder Singh ◽  
Ashutosh Kushwah ◽  
B. S. Gill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cicer Arietinum ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Biochemical Traits ◽  
Physiological And Biochemical

scholarly journals Differential Physiological Responses and Genetic Variations in Fine Fescue Species for Heat and Drought Stress

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyu Wang ◽  
Patrick Burgess ◽  
Stacy A. Bonos ◽  
William A. Meyer ◽  
Bingru Huang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Drought Stress ◽  
Drought Tolerance ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Photochemical Efficiency ◽  
Physiological Parameters ◽  
Festuca Rubra ◽  
Relative Water ◽  
Prolonged Heat ◽  
Fine Fescue

Summer decline is typically characterized by heat and drought stress and is a major concern for fine fescue species (Festuca). The objectives of this study were to examine whether heat or drought stress is more detrimental, and to determine the genotypic variations in heat and drought tolerance for fine fescues. A total of 26 cultivars, including seven hard fescues (Festuca trachyphylla), eight chewings fescues (Festuca rubra ssp. commutate), seven strong creeping red fescues (Festuca rubra ssp. rubra), two sheep fescues (Festuca ovina ssp. hirtula), and two slender creeping red fescues (Festuca rubra ssp. littoralis) were subjected to prolonged heat or drought stress in growth chambers. Several physiological parameters, including turf quality (TQ), electrolyte leakage (EL), photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm) chlorophyll content (Chl), and relative water content (RWC) were measured in plants exposed to heat or drought stress. The results indicated that heat stress was more detrimental than drought stress for fine fescue species. Based on TQ and major physiological parameters (EL and Fv/Fm) under heat stress, several cultivars with good heat tolerance were selected, including ‘Blue Ray’, ‘Spartan II’, ‘MN-HD1’, ‘Shoreline’, ‘Navigator II’, ‘Azure’, ‘Beacon’, ‘Aurora Gold’, ‘Reliant IV’, ‘Marco Polo’, ‘Garnet’, ‘Wendy Jean’, ‘Razor’, and ‘Cindy Lou’. Based on TQ and major physiological parameters (EL, RWC, and Fv/Fm) under drought stress, several cultivars with good drought tolerance were selected, including ‘Spartan II’, ‘MN-HD1’, ‘Reliant IV’, ‘Garnet’, ‘Azure’, and ‘Aurora Gold’. These cultivars could be used in hot, dry, or both environments and as breeding germplasm for developing heat tolerance, drought tolerance, or both.

scholarly journals Heat-induced Leaf Senescence and Hormonal Changes for Thermal Bentgrass and Turf-type Bentgrass Species Differing in Heat Tolerance

2007 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Xu ◽  
Bingru Huang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Leaf Senescence ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Photochemical Efficiency ◽  
Creeping Bentgrass ◽  
Zeatin Riboside ◽  
Hormonal Changes ◽  
Heat Tolerant ◽  
Aba Content

Leaf senescence can be induced by many environmental stresses, including supraoptimal temperatures. The objectives of this study were to evaluate leaf senescence induced by heat stress for two Agrostis species contrasting in heat tolerance and to examine whether heat-induced leaf senescence in both species was associated with changes in three major senescence-related hormones: ethylene, abscisic acid (ABA), and cytokinins. Plants of heat-tolerant rough bentgrass (Agrostis scabra Willd.) and heat-sensitive creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) were exposed to 35/30 °C (day/night) (high temperature) or 20/15 °C (control) for 35 d in growth chambers. Turf quality, photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm), and the contents of two pigments (chlorophyll and carotenoid) for both species decreased under high temperature; however, heat-tolerant A. scabra exhibited delayed and less severe decline in all parameters compared with heat-sensitive A. stolonifera. Ethylene production rate increased in both species at 35 °C, but the increase was observed 21 days later in A. scabra compared with that in A. stolonifera. ABA content increased at the initiation of heat stress and then declined in both species after prolonged heat stress. However, the timing of the increase was delayed for 7 days and the highest level of ABA content was less in A. scabra (4.0 times that of the control) than that in A. stolonifera (5.9 times that of the control). Decreases in both forms of cytokinins (transzeatin/zeatin riboside and isopentenyl adenosine) were also delayed for 14 days and less pronounced in A. scabra. Correlation analysis revealed that leaf senescence induced by heat stress was negatively correlated to ethylene and ABA accumulation and positively correlated to cytokinin production. Delayed leaf senescence in A. scabra under heat stress could be related to slower and less magnitude of changes in ethylene, ABA, and cytokinins.

Effects of Enhanced UV-B Radiation on the Drought Semi-deciduous Mediterranean Shrub Phlomis fruticosa under Field Conditions are Season-specific

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 737 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Nikolopoulos ◽  
Y Petropoulou ◽  
A Kyparissis ◽  
Y Manetas
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Stratospheric Ozone ◽  
Photochemical Efficiency ◽  
Net Photosynthesis ◽  
Experimental Period ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
Photosynthetic Performance ◽  
Photosynthetic Parameters ◽  
Summer Drought ◽  
Total Carotenoids

The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on Phlomis fruticosa L. were recorded during a 1- year field study. Plants received ambient or ambient plus supplemental UV-B radiation (simulating a 15% stratospheric ozone depletion over Patras, 38.3�N, 29.1�E) and only natural precipitation, i.e. they were simultaneously exposed to other natural stresses, particularly water stress during summer. Actual, biologically equivalent UV-B doses were 8.55 and 11.21 kJ m-2 day-1 during the summer maximum (14 July) and 0.85 and 1.12 kJ m-2 day-1 during the winter minimum (27 December) for control and W-B plants respectively, while intermediate values were received for the rest of the year. lho seasonally separated effects could be distinguished. The first was a growth response, observed at late spring, in the absence of any simultaneous stress and at the period most favourable for this shrub, during which it shows maximum photosynthetic performance. The effect was an inhibition of new leaf development and premature falling of old leaves, leading to lower leaf numbers and total leaf areas for the rest of the experimental period. The second effect coincided with the summer drought, during which net photosynthesis, chlorophyll content and photochemical efficiency of photosystem II decreased in the controls, but a trend towards a further decrease in W-B irradiated plants was also evident. Changes in total carotenoids were negligible, leading to higher carotenoid to chlorophyll ratios under enhanced W-B radiation. Photosynthetic parameters recovered to the same levels in control and UV-B irradiated plants after the first heavy rains in autumn. At final harvest, considerable decreases in total dry mass were evident for UV-B irradiated plants, while plant height, UV-B-absorbing compounds, relative water content and leaf specific mass were unaffected during the whole experimental period. UV-B effects may depend not only on co-occumng natural stresses, but on the specific sensitivity of individual developmental stages as well, i.e. they may be season-specific.

scholarly journals Heat Treatment in Two Tomato Cultivars: A Study of the Effect on Physiological and Growth Recovery

Horticulturae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Sherzod Nigmatullaevich Rajametov ◽  
Eun Young Yang ◽  
Hyo Bong Jeong ◽  
Myeong Cheoul Cho ◽  
Soo Young Chae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Fruit Weight ◽  
Seedling Stage ◽  
Reproductive Parameters ◽  
Fresh Weight ◽  
Fruit Length ◽  
Tomato Cultivars ◽  
Heat Tolerant ◽  
Fruit Diameter

High temperature (HT) significantly affects crop physiological traits and reduces productivity in plants. To increase yields as well as survival of crops under HT, developing heat-tolerant plants is one of the main targets in crop breeding programs. The present study attempted to investigate the linkage of the heat tolerance between the seedling and reproductive growth stages of tomato cultivars ’Dafnis‘ and ’Minichal.’ This research was undertaken to evaluate heat tolerance under two experimental designs such as screening at seedling stage and screening from reproductive traits in greenhouses. Survival rate and physiological responses in seedlings of tomatoes with 4-5 true leaves were estimated under HT (40 °C, RH 70%, day/night, respectively) and under two control and HT greenhouse conditions (day time 28 °C and 40 °C, respectively). Heat stress significantly affected physiological–chemical (photosynthesis, electrolyte conductivity, proline) and vegetative parameters (plant height, shoot fresh weight, root fresh weight) in all tomato seedlings. The findings revealed that regardless of tomato cultivars the photosynthesis, chlorophyll, total proline and electrical conductivity parameters were varied in seedlings during the heat stress period. The heat tolerance rate of tomatoes in the seedling stage might not always be associated with reproductive parameters. HT reduced fruit parameters such as fruit weight (31.9%), fruit length (14.1%), fruit diameter (19.1%), and fruit hardness (9.1%) compared to NT under HT in heat-susceptible tomato cultivar ‘Dafnis’, while in heat-tolerant cultivar ‘Minichal’ fruit length (7.1%) and fruit diameter (12.1%) was decreased by the effects of HT, but on the contrary fruit weight (3.6%) and fruit hardness (8.3%) were increased. In conclusion, screening and selection for tomatoes should be evaluated at the vegetative and reproductive stages with consideration of reproductive parameters.

Phenotyping of wheat cultivars for heat tolerance using chlorophyll a fluorescence

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dew Kumari Sharma ◽  
Sven Bode Andersen ◽  
Carl-Otto Ottosen ◽  
Eva Rosenqvist
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Chlorophyll Fluorescence ◽  
Mass Screening ◽  
Heat Tolerance ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Genetic Difference ◽  
Photochemical Efficiency ◽  
Wheat Cultivars ◽  
Genetic Determination ◽  
Chlorophyll Fluorescence Parameters

In view of the global climate change, heat stress is an increasing constraint for the productivity of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Our aim was to identify contrasting cultivars in terms of heat tolerance by mass screening of 1274 wheat cultivars of diverse origin, based on a physiological trait, the maximum quantum efficiency of PSII (Fv/Fm). A chlorophyll fluorescence protocol was standardised and used for repeated screening with increased selection pressure with a view to identifying a set of cultivars extreme for the trait. An initial mass screening of 1274 wheat cultivars with a milder heat stress of 38°C in 300 µmol m–2 s–1 for 2 h with preheating at 33–35°C for 19 h in 7–14 µmol m–2 s–1 light showed a genetic determination of 8.5 ± 2.7%. A heat treatment of 40°C in 300 µmol m–2 s–1 for 72 h in the second screening with 138 selected cultivars resulted in larger differentiation of cultivars with an increased genetic component (15.4 ± 3.6%), which was further increased to 27.9 ± 6.8% in the third screening with 41 contrasting cultivars. This contrasting set of cultivars was then used to compare the ability of chlorophyll fluorescence parameters to detect genetic difference in heat tolerance. The identification of a set of wheat cultivars contrasting for their inherent photochemical efficiency may aid future studies to understand the genetic and physiological nature of heat stress tolerance in order to dissect quantitative traits into simpler genetic factors.

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